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ArticleComputational intelligence and neuroscience2022

BA-GCA Net: Boundary-Aware Grid Contextual Attention Net in Osteosarcoma MRI Image Segmentation.

Jia Wu, Zikang Liu, Fangfang Gou, Jun Zhu, Haoyu Tang, Xian Zhou, Wangping Xiong

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Article in Computational intelligence and neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jia WuSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9013-0818
Zikang LiuSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
Fangfang GouSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
Jun ZhuThe First People's Hospital of Huaihua, Huaihua, Hunan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0596-0230
Haoyu TangThe First People's Hospital of Huaihua, Huaihua, Hunan, China.
Xian ZhouJiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, JiangXi, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2281-7308
Wangping XiongJiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, JiangXi, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4992-8558
Central South University · CNHunan University · CNJiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

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Abstract

Osteosarcoma is one of the most common bone tumors that occurs in adolescents. Doctors often use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) through biosensors to diagnose and predict osteosarcoma. However, a number of osteosarcoma MRI images have the problem of the tumor shape boundary being vague, complex, or irregular, which causes doctors to encounter difficulties in diagnosis and also makes some deep learning methods lose segmentation details as well as fail to locate the region of the osteosarcoma. In this article, we propose a novel boundary-aware grid contextual attention net (BA-GCA Net) to solve the problem of insufficient accuracy in osteosarcoma MRI image segmentation. First, a novel grid contextual attention (GCA) is designed to better capture the texture details of the tumor area. Then the statistical texture learning block (STLB) and the spatial transformer block (STB) are integrated into the network to improve its ability to extract statistical texture features and locate tumor areas. Over 80,000 MRI images of osteosarcoma from the Second Xiangya Hospital are adopted as a dataset for training, testing, and ablation studies. Results show that our proposed method achieves higher segmentation accuracy than existing methods with only a slight increase in the number of parameters and computational complexity.

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Bone NeoplasmsOsteosarcomaAdolescentAttentionHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance Imaging

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PMID35942441
PMCPMC9356797
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